The empire in the city : Arab provincial capitals in the late Ottoman empire ; [... conference on "Arab Provincial Capitals in the Late Ottoman Empire" held at the German Orient-Institute [...] / ed. by Jens Hanssen; Thomas Philip; Stefan Weber. Würzburg : Ergon-Verl., 2002
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Orient-Institut Der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft Beiruter Texte und Studien
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Preface
IX Table Of Contents
XI Abbreviations Of Periodicals And Publishers
Introduction: Towards A New Urban Paradigm
27 I Discourse and pratice of Ottomanism
29 Rethinking Ottoman Imperialism: Modernity, Violence And The Cultural Logic Of Ottoman Reform Ussama Makdisi
49 Practices Of Integration - Center-Periphery Relations In The Ottoman Empire Jens Hanssen
75 II The Empire And The European in Arab Provincial Capitals
77 Acre, The First Instance Of Changing Times Thomas Philipp
93 Foreign Presence And Perception Of Ottoman Rule In Beirut Leila Fawaz
105 Housing The Foreign A European's Exotic Home In Late Ninteenth-Century Beirut Ralph Bodenstein
129 III Participating in Empire, Shaping the Surroundings, and Challenging Authority
131 Ottoman Provincial Towns From The Eighteenth To The Nineteenth Century. A Re-Assessmant of their Place in the Transformation of the Empire Christoph K. Neumann
145 Images Of Imagined Worlds Self-image and Worldview in Late Ottoman Wall Paintings of Damascus Stefan Weber
173 The Cairo Cab Drivers And The Strike Of 1907 John Chalcraft
199 IV Urban Institutions Between Centralization and Autonomy
201 Waqf Only In Name, Not In Essence. Early Tanẓīmāt Waqf Reforms in the Province of Damascus Astrid Meier
219 Centralised Authority And Local Decisional Power: Managment of the Endowments in Late Ottoman Damascus Randi Deguilhem
235 V Portraying a New Ottoman Presence
251 VI Empire, Patrons and Domestic Architecture
253 Mersin: The Formation Of A Tanẓīmāt City In Southern Turkey Fılız Yenişehirlioğlu
275 The Central Hall House; Regional Commonalities And Local Specificities: A Comparison between Beirut and al-Salṭ Anne Mollenhauer
297 As-Sayyid Abū ʿl-Hudā Al-Ṣayyādī In Aleppo Julia Gonnella
309 VII The Ottoman Civilizing Mission
311 Ninetenth Century Baghdad Through Ottoman Eyes Christoph Herzog
329 Ordering Urban Space In Ottoman Yemen, 1872–1914 Thomas Kühn
349 The Ottoman Empire And Yemeni Politics In The Sancaḳ Of Taʿizz, 1911-1918 Isa Blumi
369 About The Authors
371 Index
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